Thursday, 27 June 2013

I would like to welcome all entrants
and their partners to the Far North Queensland Veteran Golfers
Association's 36 Hole Tournament being held at the Cairns Golf Club.
This welcome is especially extended to those of you who have
travelled long distances to participate and it is the hope of the
FNQVGA that everybody has a great couple of days.

Attached is the draw for the event to
played next Monday and Tuesday. You will find that in most cases,
you will be playing at approximately the same time on both days. The
majority of players who commence on the 1st hole on the
Monday will commence play from the 10th on the Tuesday and
vice versa. Whilst every endeavour has been made to accommodate
your requests, please check the time sheets for any variations in
your tee-times. Please
collect your cards from the Registration desk which will be located
inside the Club House.

All players have been entered into the
computer system at Cairns Golf Club using the handicaps supplied by
each of you in the Entry Forms you submitted. It is the player's
responsibility to ensure that they are playing off the correct
handicap on the day and this should be checked as soon as practical
prior to the Tournament commencing. If a player's handicap has been
increased or decreased, they are required to make a note of that fact
on their scorecard prior to its return after the first round. ALL
HANDICAPS WILL BE FROZEN FOR THE ENTIRETY OF THE TOURNAMENT.

It is requested that, at the conclusion
of your round, prior to handing in your card, you enter your score
into the computer kiosk in the Clubhouse. All that will be required
to be entered is your total Stableford score and the score you had
for the last nine holes. Whilst a great many Clubs are now using
some form of computer system to process their competitions, there are
others that are not. If you have any difficulty or reluctance
whatsoever in entering your card, please let one of the people
processing the cards know and you will receive assistance. By
entering your cards, a live up-to-date Leaderboard will be displayed
on a T.V. set in the main Bar area.

There will be two Grades for the men
and one Grade for women. The Men's Grades will be Division 1, 0-19,
Division 2, 20-36. All ties will be decided by a count-back, last 9,
last 6, last 3, and then individual holes back from Hole 18.

Any protests must be submitted to the
Match Committee, as soon as practical after the completion of the
round.

I trust that everyone will have a great
time, play great golf and enjoy the company of each other during
their rounds and afterwards.

Tuesday, 25 June 2013

A beautiful cool morning
warmed up to a clear day with a light breeze for the best field of
the year as 121 men & 29 ladies turned up to a course in great
condition after the club championships the previous weekend.
Congratulations to the greens staff, who were also busy repairing
damage to the first green caused by vandals the night before.

Thank you to the caterers
who did a good job of keeping up with our numbers. Thanks also to
Brothers Leagues Club for sponsoring the event.

Welcome to visitors
Charlie Langham of Wauchope, Peter Buckman of Yallourn, Brian Gaudian
of Cobram/Barooga, Trevor Harlow of Colonial, Shawn Wolstenholme of
Riverside Oaks, Burt Smith of Albury, Kerry & Vic Aanensen of
Amstel, & Gary Mostyn of Howlong & to new member Richard Staines of
Cairns. Our membership for the year to date stands at 286.

I must offer my apology
for misleading some players at the start of the comp today by stating
it was Bisque. Someone queried what game it was with me at a busy
time & I had looked at the wrong date. However, after explaining
my error to our long suffering Captain (& receiving a dirty look)
he has converted any bisque scores to stableford so no-one missed
out. Thank you Greg.

Our
next games are our Open on Monday & Tuesday next week, both
single stableford at Cairns sponsored by Drummond Golf. Nominations
for this event have now closed.
The starting sheets are being prepared & will be emailed out to
all for whom we have email addresses as well as being posted to this
blog.

Anyone
who has not nominated for the Open may still turn up on the day at
registration between 7 & 8am & will be tagged on at the end
of the field if we can fit them in. However, as we have a full field
at present places will be limited.

Our last raffle before
the Open was drawn – Winner Bruce Walters, Second Merv Haines.
Congratulations.

There have been some
changes to our program and copies of the amended program for the rest
of the year will be posted to this blog as well as being available at
registration. Following a dispute with Mossman golf club, the games
there on 9 July & 10 September have been cancelled. We will be
playing Millaa Millaa on 9 July and Babinda on 10 September, both
games counting towards the Patron's Trophy. Also, the Bisque game at
Half Moon Bay on 30 July has been changed to a single stableford
Consistency event, and the single stableford at Atherton on 1 October
has also been designated a Consistency event.

Saturday, 22 June 2013

Our game next Tuesday is at Half Moon Bay, sponsored by Brothers Leagues Club.

As they will have just had their Championships, the course should be in prime condition. Greens will not have been shaved, but will have been rolled, so will be firm & good practice for our Open at Cairns the week after.

I'm sure the caterers will look after us well as usual.

See you there.

Louis Siedle

PS For those who failed to spot my mistake yesterday, I've altered the date in the heading to the correct one!